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Creating Children’s Vegetable Gardens

If you are looking for an activity that you can do with your children that will get them out of the house and being active, you might want to consider creating a place that they can go and can take care of nature, and a place that they can cherish as their own. The idea of children’s vegetable gardens has become quite popular because they are great ways to get your children out of the house.

Wonderful Tools

The greatest things about the children’s vegetable gardens are that they are ways for children to become involved in the world around them. You can help your child to decide where their garden is going to go, and you can help them pick out which plants to put there. However, once you help them plant them and show them what to do next, the care of the children’s vegetable garden becomes up to the child.

This is something that a child can do quite easily, as long as you give them instructions and provide them with support, including reminders of what they have to do for their own vegetables to grow. A child is more than able to take care of a garden, and you can work side by side, you in your garden, and the child in theirs.

Teaches Many things

Having children’s vegetable gardens allows your children to learn many things. First of all, they’ll be able to learn responsibility because you can have them be the ones who have to water the garden and pick the weeds.

It will teach them that when they make a commitment to something they actually have to be willing to take care of it. It will also teach them that they have to be willing to prioritize their responsibilities and put things first that are most important to them. However, having children’s vegetable gardens will teach them much more, as well. They will learn about nature and how plants grow.

It is a good idea to have children learn a little about where their food actually comes from, so that they can be educated when it comes to buying food in the future. It is always nice when your children can know where their food is coming from, and when they have some knowledge about how it got to be in their tummies. Having children’s vegetable gardens can help them learn about this.

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Gardening Tip #7

Foliage plants usually have high nitrogen needs, while flowering plants, K2O is needed. Slow release fertilizers can be mixed with the compost. However, certain plants like cacti and orchids need special fertilizer. Feed plants during their most active growth period.